Word: felix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be foolish to suggest that President Lowell's decision in the case was reached solely because of a prejudice against Italians or against radicals. Lowell had stood out against his own class before and would do so again. When alumni were calling for the resignation of Felix Frankfurter, who aided the defense during the Sacco case, Lowell would have nothing of it. He supported the League of Nations when that was an unpopular cause and refused to fire Harold Laski when alumni pressure for the socialist's dismissal was intense...
McCloskey defined "judicial conservative" as a Justice who feels the Court should interfere as little as possible with the affairs of state and national governments. He said that the leading spokesman for this philosophy is former Justice Felix Frankfurter...
Watch the Lingerie. Fantus was set up in Chicago by Chair Manufacturer Felix Fantus, who found the job of finding a new location for his Indiana plant so complicated that he decided that he might make more money in selling industrial real estate. The firm stopped handling real estate in 1935 after Fantus' son-in-law and partner, Leonard Yaseen, saw a bigger future in selling site-finding expertise than in peddling land. Yaseen, 50, now runs the company's New York office while another Fantus son-in-law, Maurice Fulton, 42, heads the Chicago operation. Fantus...
Died. Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft. broke the record set by his late twin brother Auguste (a deep-sea explorer as well) and brought back data that helped confirm the increase of cosmic rays at higher altitudes; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...
...everybody was at Palm Beach -and Kennedy was not the only U.S. political leader having thoughts. During the Washington dog days before the opening of Congress, New York Times Correspondent Felix Belair Jr. wandered up to Gettysburg, talked to Dwight Eisenhower, and came away with quite a story. Upon leaving the White House, Ike had vowed to devote much of his post-presidential retirement to applying the lessons of his experience to the nation's problems. Now he was ready with some warnings-and some specific proposals...